Capping-horse for hollow glass cylinders.



Patented Apr. 23,1918,

S B HENSHAW CAPPING HORSE FOR HOLLOW GLASS CYLINDERS.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-5,1915,

WITNESSES:

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snrn B. HENSHAW, or onennnsron, wes v nsrnm, assrsnon T0 cnAnns'roiv WINDOW GLASS 00., or CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA, A conrona'rron OF wnscr VIRGINIA.

CAPPING -HORSE FOR HOLLOW GLASS CYLINDERS.

I Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 23, 1918.

Application filed August 5, 1915. Serial No. 43,810.

To all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that I, SET B; HnNsriAW, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Charleston, in the county oi Kanawha, and State of est Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Capping-I-lorses for Hollow Glass Cylinders, of which the following is a sp eei fieation.

My present invention relates gene ally to larly to what is commonly known as a capping horse for the support of a drawn hollow glass cylinder during the cutting there-oil? into lengths.

Supports of this character now include a frame which is secured a short distance from the drawing furnace, to which frame are pivotally connected a series of transverse arms, hating semi-circularly curved portions at one or both sidesofthe frame.

in either case these curved portions receive sectional wooden sleeves directly engaging the hollow glass cylinders which the curved portions of the arms are adapted to receive for the purpose of capping, and springs, in the nature of compression springs, extend between the said supporting arms and the said frame at thatside of the frame next. to the curved cylinder receiving portions of the arms, being necessarily connected with the latter in a manner preventing ready detachment, and necessitating normal outstanding positions of the supporting arms at all times.

It is therefore the object of my invention to provide a horse, the supporting arms of which have curved cylinder receiving portions at one side of the frame, and extensions projecting beyond the opposite side of the frame, the springs in this instance in the nature of ret-actile springs, being desprings detached and the arms dropped in disuse.

Referring now to these figures, the frame of my in'iproved horse, includes as usual the upper and lower parallel longitudinal bars A and A. respectively, extending through and connected by a plurality of uprights B, the lower ends of the latter of which are secured by bolts or other suitable means as indicated at G in Figs. 2 and 3, to the floor of the tact-Orv in which the horse is utilized, at a short. distance from the drawing furnace in connection with which the horse is erected.

The supporting arms I), of which there are a series as particularly shown in Fig. 1, are intermediately and pivotally connected to the upper bar A of the frame, by intermediately bending these arms around the bars to loosely engage the same as best seen by reference to Figs. 2 and 3, the semicircularly curved cylinder receiving portions Di of these arms extending to one side of the frame and receiving as usual the sectional wooden sleeve E on which the c vliin ders supported directly engage.

In accordance with my invention, these supporting arms D are provided with straight horizontal extensions 1) projecting at the relatively opposite side of the frame asclearly seen in Fig. 2, these extensions D having curved hooks (Z at their extremities engaged by the upper outer ends of retractile springs F, the lower ends of which springs are connected as usual to the lower bars A of the frame.

In this manner it will be seen that the springs extend to the relatively opposite sideof the frame as compared to their usual extension at the presenttime for connection withthe supporting arms D immediately adjacent their semi-circularly curved porand secure better, truer, and more uniform movements of the supporting arms under the tension of the springs than can be obtained by the use of compression springs at present.

In addition to the above, however, it is to be particularly noted that I am enabled by the arrangement above described to detachably connectthe springs F to the supporting arms, thus enabling the arms to drop to the position either shown in full lines ofFig. 3, of their own accord and weight, or preferably to theposition shown in dotted lines in Fig. 3 by swinging the curved portions D over the top of 'the frame, the space between the upper and lower bars A and A being somewhat greater than the length of the extensions D Thus when a horse is in disuse, its arms may be swung downwardly to substantially vertical positions, and out of the way of operators passing along both sides of the frame, thusreducing to a minimum the floor space taken up by the machine when not in use.

I claim 1. A capping horse for hollow glass cyl- ,inders including a supporting'frame, a pluv one side of theframe, and retractile springs Copies of this patent may be obtained for extending from the frame at the relatively opposite side thereof from the cylinderreceiving portions of the said arm, said springs being detachably connected to portions of the supporting arms, for the purpose described.

3. A ca )ping horse for hollow glass cylinders including a supporting frame, a plurality of normally horizontal supporting arms pivotally connected to the frame and having cylinder receiving portions at one side of the frame, and extensions projecting at the opposite side of the frame, and springs extending between the frame and the said arms and detachably connected to the said extensions of the latter, for the purpose described.

4. A capping horse for hollow glass cylinders including a supporting frame, a plurality of supporting arms pivotally connected to the frame and having cylinder receiving portions at one side of the frame, and extensions projecting at the opposite side of the frame and provided with hooks at their extremities, and retractile springs extending between the frame and the said arms and detachably engaging the said hooks at the extremities of the arm extensions, for the purpose described.

5. A capping horse for hollow glass cylinders comprising a supporting frame including an upper horizontal bar, a plurality of normally horizontal supporting arms each consisting of a rod intermediately bent around said horizontal frame bar whereby to form a fulcrum on which the arm may swing vertically, each arm having a curved cylinder receiving portion at one side of the frame and an extension projecting at the opposite side of the frame, and a retractile spring extending from the frame and normally engaging said extension.

SETH B. HENSHAW.

Witnesses:

V. F. BLACK, S. P. RICHMOND,

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

